Recharging Your Network with the Cisco ASR 9000 Brochure

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The ASR 9000 Recharge...... 3 The effects of digitization...... 3 Why moving to Cloud-Scale makes good business sense...... 4

Cisco IOS XR Software: Cloud-Scale innovations ...... 5 Cloud-Scale features: Cisco ASR 9000 and third-generation line cards...... 6

Use cases: Enhancing service provider services...... 12 Business and residential services...... 12 Mobile backhaul services...... 13 Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Services...... 14 Internet peering/transit services...... 16 Cisco ASR 9000 overview...... 18 Smart Software Licensing for the Cisco ASR 9000...... 19 Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router...... 20 Third-generation line cards...... 20 Cisco Services...... 22 Unmatched industry experience...... 22 Implementation tailored to your business...... 22 Summary...... 23 Learn more...... 24

The ASR 9000 Recharge What does this brochure include? (IoT), 4K video and 5G are coming and will In this brochure you’ll find details on the many tax network infrastructures with even more technology features in Cisco ASR 9000 Series traffic. Legacy technologies, processes, routers and third-generation line cards that service operations and network architectures make recharging your network for cloud-scale can’t handle these new services and volumes. possible. Also included are specific use cases They’re too inflexible, inefficient, complex, that benefit from the move to cloud-scale. You’ll costly and lack scale. Networks that do not read about new capabilities enabled by IOS XR retool in preparation for digitization will lose out and our third-generation line cards when they to competitors. You need to retool your network are deployed to support business VPN services infrastructure in preparation to meet these at the edge, residential services, mobile growing demands. backhaul, Data Center Interconnect (DCI), and Internet transit/peering. To counteract the effects of digitization, you need to operate, grow and manage your Audience network more efficiently. To reduce time- Exponential growth and the Written for both business and technical to-market, service creation needs to be on- effect of digitization professionals, this brochure provides service demand. For operational efficiency and lower According to the most recent Cisco Visual providers with compelling reasons why it’s vital TCO, the network needs to be programmable Networking Index (VNI) Forecast Data, by the to recharge your service infrastructure to meet and processes need to be automated. To meet year 2020: the new demands of government, business, shifting demands, bandwidth needs to scale, as consumers, and operational realities. needed. And to control and manage services • IP traffic will reach 2.3 Zettabytes annually securely, visibility needs to be end-to-end by 2020 The effects of digitization across every device on the network and across • 50% of global IP traffic will come from every traffic flow. Digitization has sent network traffic volumes Wi-Fi connections on an exponentially growing trajectory. Exciting • Average Wi-Fi speeds will increase to 24 Mbps, offerings such as the Internet of Everything and fixed broadband speeds will increase to 47.7 Mbps • Global IP traffic will nearly triple between 2015 and 2020 to 194 Exabytes per month • Video will be 79% of global Internet traffic

Why moving to Cloud-Scale makes good Industry leading platform Business requirements: business sense As an industry leader in innovative technologies The benefits of cloud-scale are real and including segment routing and SDN automation, Cloud-Scale networking quantifiable. TCO is reduced through better Cisco provides a cloud-scale platform designed No industry category is changing more bandwidth utilization (price per Gbps), energy for scale and operational efficiency. With the dramatically and quickly today than network efficient hardware, and a dramatic cut in Cisco ASR 9000 and third-generation line cards, service. Never has the need for more, operational costs with orchestration and you can: better and faster been greater than in your automation. You’re able to launch new services operations. We know the pressures and • Simplify multilayer network operations with less faster and substantially improve your customer challenges you’re under and we’ve devoted complex, automated workflows (around 80% experience with a real-time, hyper-scalable global resources to address them. Cloud- reduction in operational complexity according to platform that is easier to control and manage. scale networking is focused on meeting some Cisco studies) Built-in security, across all layers of your service many key service provider and mission- delivery architecture, helps you mitigate risk. And • Significantly shorten the service creation critical Enterprise and government business with SDN, you have the agility and control you lifecycle, moving services from concept to requirements that have arisen in response to need for applications to determine their resource revenue in weeks instead of years today’s trends, including: needs, rather than being limited by infrastructure • Gain visibility, control, and multilayer • Network scalability in real-time constraints. Your cloud-scale network is ready to optimization of the network through computing deliver any service, anywhere, and at any time. and control functions that use open APIs across • Lower TCO from reduced operational and all network layers, allowing for the delivery of transport costs and greater efficiency Why Cisco for Cloud-Scale? application-driven network services • Automation for onboarding, Day 1 The Cisco ASR9000 Series with IOS XR third provisioning and Day 2 management generation line cards is a carrier class platform Read on to find out how the Cisco ASR 9000 with that is used worldwide as the foundation for third-generation line cards can enable your move • Greater agility with SDN programmability delivering services such as 4G mobile Internet, to cloud-scale. • End-to-end visibility for more control and business-class Ethernet, and residential video better management of services and broadband. With more integrated capabilities, • Traffic steering with flexibility for different such as DDOS, MACSEC, EVPN, segment routing, application requirements NETCONF/YANG, and streaming telemetry Cisco offers new innovative ways to help networks get • Openness of the networking stack to simpler, faster, smarter and more secure. integrate third-party applications and containers

Cisco IOS XR Software: Cloud-Scale innovations Cisco innovation: Network Cisco IOS XR Software provides an array of features representing over 15 years of use and development, Services Orchestrator including cloud-scale capabilities. Cisco IOS XR cloud-scale features include integration with structured, Cisco Network Services Orchestrator data model-driven, high-performance APIs so you can move beyond CLIs. A comprehensive set of (NSO) lets you deliver services faster and YANG-based configuration and operational data models let you control the rich feature set of the OS. more easily to your customers through There is support for native, OpenConfig and IETF models. The YANG modeling language is optimized for network automation. network devices with many tools and utilities. Encoding is decoupled from the model so you can deploy with data encoded in JSON, XML or Google Protocol Buffers (GPB) format. Transport is also decoupled What can NSO help you do? from the choice of encoding for further flexibility. You have the flexibility to use NETCONF, RESTCONF or Google RPC (gRPC) for encoding. Additionally, the Yang Development Kit (YDK) is provided, letting your • Drastically reduce the time to on-board developers auto-generate model-driven APIs from any Yang model for Python and C++. new services in the network using model- driven orchestration Cisco IOS XR is modular. Major features are available as independent packages. Just get the code • Accelerate revenue-generating services you need and put it to work faster. Industry-standard RPMs align update and upgrade procedures with with automated, self-service, on-demand those used in the data center. The RPM package format provides the transparency and automation provisioning that reduces activation times required of cloud-scale. from months to minutes Figure 2. Business value for Cloud-Scale: Cisco ASR 9000 and third-generation line cards • Increase business agility with the capability Transform Accelerate Generate to create, reconfigure, and repurpose Reduce TCO Operations Speed to Market New Revenue services in real time • Simplify your network operations by automating the end-to-end service lifecycle and reducing manual configuration steps by up to 70 percent, according to Cisco estimates • Differentiate the services you offer with automated advanced device features, bundled network services, and real-time assurance • Dramatically reduce downtime with exceptional control over network changes Improve Mitigate Application Network Customer Risk Led, Not as a and the ability to reconfigure devices and Experience Infrastructure Platform services during live production New device on-boarding is automated for boot and day-zero provisioning. Say goodbye to manual processes. Bring devices online in minutes instead of hours. Automation for Day 2 management is also provided.

Cloud-Scale features: Cisco ASR 9000 and third-generation line cards The following is a sampling of the cloud-scale features―and their associated benefits―that are available with the Cisco ASR 9000, our third-generation line cards and Cisco IOS XR. Together, they deliver many benefits including reduced TCO, faster time-to-market, improved customer experience, increased revenues, and much more. Some of the features you’ll want to take advantage of immediately. Others may apply to your future plans. Either way, we think you’ll be impressed with all of the ways the ASR 9000 can help transform your network to meet the growing demands of digitization.

Increased bandwidth and density ASR 9000 third-generation line cards provide up to 12 ports of 100GE. The 8x100GE and 4x100GE line cards can be configured in 10/40/100GE mode. Thanks to Anyport technology exclusively available with CPAK optics, each port can be configured as 10x10GE or 2x40GE or consolidated into a single link for unprecedented density and scale. The high-density Cisco NCS 5000 Series satellite port extender solution is also supported to further increase port density.

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Application hosting The Cisco IOS XR 64 Bit architecture on the ASR 9000 supports third-party off-the-shelf operational applications built with Linux tool chains. You can run custom applications built with the Software Development Kit (SDK) that Cisco provides. Application hosting gives you a platform for experimenting with your tools and utilities. Use apps to monitor the state of your network.

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Scalable media transport With the cloud-scale capabilities of the ASR 9000, you can scale up media transport to 512K per subscriber per ASR 9000 chassis. Coupled with the high-density third-generation line cards, this provides enough bandwidth to address customer needs into the foreseeable future.

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Multiservice edge Cisco innovation: WAN The ASR 9000 with IOS-XR is a highly resilient, scalable, and feature-rich networking platform. It Automation Engine (WAE) supports edge services such as: Layer 2 VPN (L2VPN), Layer 3 VPN (L3VPN), Broadband Network WAE is a powerful and flexible SDN Gateway (BNG), Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and Content-Delivery Networks (CDNs). You can deploy the ASR 9000 as common networking infrastructure to manage multiple edge services. platform that automates the engineering and operations of multivendor physical and Reduce TCO Accelerate Speed to Market virtual WAN infrastructures. You can use WAE to deploy new services, including global Ethernet VPN load balancing, bandwidth on demand, and premium/latency based network routing. It EVPN is the next-generation all-in-one VPN technology that provides a wide of range of services such as Ethernet Virtual Private LAN (E-LAN), Ethernet Virtual Private Line (E-Line), Ethernet Virtual helps you optimize your network infrastructure Private Tree (E-TREE), Layer 3 VPN (L3VPN), Data Center Interconnect (DCI), Data Center Overlay, and through continual monitoring and analysis of Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB). These services were previously provided by different, disjointed network elements and applications technologies. EVPN uses Multi-Protocol extensions to Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP) to distribute Layer 2 MAC or IP information. Therefore, EVPN can control Layer 2 or Layer 3 overlays and can be What can WAE help you do? used to deliver Ethernet and IP VPN services removing some complexity at the control level. • Perform accurate traffic and topology EVPN provides some significant enhancements over existing technologies. It optimizes traffic load simulations as often as needed sharing with all active multi-homing, so that devices or servers can be dual homed with both paths • Optimize traffic load-balance over core active with per-flow load sharing. Multi-homing all active capability is native to EVPN, so there is no MPLS/SR links need for complex Multi Chassis Link Aggregations (LAGs) configurations. EVPN also limits flooding • Minimize service down-time through worst for unknown unicast. With EVPN, learning takes place in the control plane, allowing for more control and policy enforcement. EVPN also performs Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) suppression, another case failure analysis optimization that reduces unnecessary traffic flooding in the network. • Reduces both OPEX and CAPEX costs through efficient asset utilization Reduce TCO Transform Operations Accelerate Speed to Market Generate New Revenue • Innovate and assure service deployment Geo-Redundancy with easy-to-use automation capabilities Geo-redundancy provides seamless failover across geographies. For example, if you have two or more BNGs in different locations when one goes down, subscribers are moved seamlessly―thanks to the stateful redundancy feature―to an available BNG at another location.

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Real-Time telemetry End-to-end visibility into network infrastructure is a required feature of cloud-scale networking. Until now, visibility has been limited to sections of network topologies, relying on SNMP which limited scalability. And visibility hasn’t been available to administrators in real-time. But with the demands of a quickly digitizing world, you need to see what is going on in all facets of your network at all times. Visibility must be continual and automated to support the scale and agility required today and increasing in the future. Cisco model-driven telemetry, available with Cisco IOS XR Software, is a new and improved approach to network monitoring. Data is streamed and captured continuously from devices with efficient, incremental updates. Model-driven telemetry is fully configurable using telemetry YANG models. You can precisely specify what data to stream, to where, and with what encoding and transport using just the models―no Command Line Interface (CLI) required. With model-driven telemetry, you simply specify the YANG model that contains the data you want. Model-driven telemetry opens up your entire operational space for fine-grained control and operational efficiencies. For example, the increased visibility provided by streaming telemetry supports the highly efficient techniques of segment routing for near real-time network optimization.

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Analytics In the future, with the streaming data from Cisco’s model-driven telemetry, you will be able to save data to a server and then run analytics on a variety of network, application, subscriber and other use cases. This capability provides visibility into the network state, traffic patterns, and applications, which can be used to monetize and optimize the network.

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4G/5G scalable architecture The cloud-scale networking architecture is backward compatible with 2G to 4G mobile network architectures and is 5G ready.

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Bandwidth flexibility Cisco innovation: Third-generation line cards provide support for a very high density of 100G/40G/10G/1G interfaces Evolved Programmable with fixed and modular options along with support for dense 10G/1G nV with our satellite solution. The same third-generation line card can, therefore, be used to support both current and future bandwidth Network Manager demands at a given site. Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPN Manager) provides simplified, Reduce TCO Transform Operations converged, end-to-end lifecycle management Timing support for carrier-grade networks of all sizes. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series features a fully-integrated timing infrastructure, allowing the routers to take What can EPN manager help you? in timing inputs (for example, SyncE, Building Integrated Timing Supply [BITS], and DOCSIS® Timing • Increase operational scale and efficiency Interface [DTI]) and distribute them over the backplane to each slot. This capability allows extensive through simplified, integrated, and support for transparent mobile convergence, mobile Radio Access Network (RAN) backhaul, and Time- automated device operations, network Division Multiplexing (TDM) circuit emulation― without sacrificing performance or scale. These timing protocols are supported on third-generation line cards, for example, for mobile backhaul: provisioning, and network assurance

• IEEE 1588 G.8275.1 • IEEE 1588 G.8265.1 • Proactively assure service performance and minimize future service disruption • IEEE 1588 G.8275.2 • SyncE through real-time fault management • IEEE 1588 G.8273.2 • PTP Hop-by-hop • Increased service agility through Generate New Revenue Application-Led, Not Infrastructure integrated lifecycle management and standards-based Northbound Interfaces Low latency (NBIs) to third-party Operations Support Systems (OSSs) Segment routing can route your critical traffic, which requires stringent SLAs, over a path where latency below a certain threshold is guaranteed. • Service provisioning, monitoring, and change and compliance management to Improve Customer Experience Application-Led, Not Infrastructure accelerate device and services deployment and to rapidly resolve problems that can affect the end-user experience

100 GE/10 GE density MACSec MACSec is the IEEE 802.1AE standard for authenticating and encrypting packets between two MACSec-capable devices. MACSec is a new third-generation line card feature. IPSec is CPU- intensive, requiring a lot of memory to handle the encryption. But the MACSec chip in third-generation line cards allows encryption and authentication in hardware, saving CPU resources and providing higher throughput. MACSec is available both on 100GE and 10GE links. This is a critical feature for DCI as service provider, Enterprise, and government links from different data centers going to public areas need to be encrypted faster to handle massive scale without overwhelming CPUs.

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Service chaining Network service chaining uses SDN capabilities to create a chain of connected network services and connects them virtually. You can use this cloud-scale capability to set up groups of connected services (e.g., Layer 4-7 firewalls, intrusion protection, Network Address Translation [NAT]) that use a single network connection. This approach automates the setup of VNFs and traffic steering for the various services. With this you can offer new-revenue generating services on-demand in your network infrastructure.

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Integrated DDoS The virtual DDoS (vDDoS) solution powered by Arbor Networks technology on the Cisco ASR 9000 detects and blocks DDoS attacks in seconds without impacting legitimate traffic. The solution can detect potential outages from DDoS attack traffic, network “hot spots”, BGP hijacks or even network misconfigurations. And it provides root cause analysis tools to quickly diagnose and resolve the issue. With this solution deployed as a Virtual Network Function (VNF), you don’t have to buy and power a separate threat management system device.

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Routing table scale Cisco innovation: Certain use cases such as Internet Transit/Peering include very large routing tables. So routing table segment routing scale is an important attribute as traffic volumes grow. With third-generation line cards and 64-bit IOS Make your cloud-scale infrastructure SDN- XR, the ASR 9000 can support 10 million IPv4 routes and 5 million IPv6 routes. ready with segment routing. This innovative Reduce TCO architecture delivers a unified, end-to-end, policy-aware network infrastructure that also Path engineering provides unmatched simplicity and scalability. With data from streaming telemetry features available with Cisco cloud-scale, analytics can provide intelligence for solutions such as segment routing and real-time traffic engineering to help engineer Why use segment routing now? optimal paths for traffic. These paths can be communicated to the network and implemented as • You can reduce the number of protocols needed. The end benefits are higher utilization rates with more efficient application-based routing and a required, and still have complete control great customer experience. over application transport

Improve Customer Experience Mitigate Risk Application-Led, Not Infrastructure Network as a Platform • Scalability is enhanced because path signaling is not required. And per-flow states are encoded in the packet header instead of the network fabric • It runs natively on a MPLS data plane, and only requires a simple upgrade to get started. Migration is painless, as it can coexist with your MPLS infrastructure • It can set up end-to-end policies across your independent Metro, WAN and data center domains, making a unified forwarding plane possible • New, innovative network services can be offered with features like low latency, disjoint paths and loop avoidance

Segment routing provides many benefits. A stateless and scalable network fabric. Higher link utilization. Ease of configuration. A better end user experience. Enhanced network resiliency. And application traffic steering.

Use cases: Enhancing service provider services Room for improvement: Cisco cloud-scale, available with the Cisco ASR 9000, Cisco IOS XR and third-generation line cards Residential services solves many existing challenges and opens up exciting new possibilities. You benefit from the flexibility Slow failover is a fact of life today among your and elasticity of using physical and virtual solutions that can be quickly deployed, modified or taken residential subscribers. They notice when down. You increase session scale with lower TCO, thanks to the 64-bit IOS XR. With Cisco’s third- their service goes down. They have to re- generation line cards, you’re adding 4x more bandwidth than the previous generation line cards. SDN authenticate and re-establish their sessions. controllers like the Cisco NSO offload control plane functions for greater efficiency. Many other features It’s a hassle that reflects poorly on your provide additional benefits. company. And network failures can wreak Business and residential services havoc on the service provider’s back end, too. When a Broadband Network Gateway For business VPN and residential services, the ASR 9000 maintains minimal software features (BNG) goes down, accounting records and protocols locally to build an optimized and self-protected IP/MPLS transport solution. Service stop. Hundreds, thousands or perhaps tens provisioning and service control plane protocols are centralized in the controller. The controller uses of thousands of disconnected subscriber open APIs to provision the service features and to program service forwarding tables. machines start requesting IP addresses and Figure 3. ASR 9000: Business VPN and residential services authentication at the same time to a different node. Your network becomes tremendously stressed. Your call center is swamped. It’s The Controller Segment Routing hard to offer service level agreements that you can guarantee. Service provisioning and service control plane Delivers a unied, end-to-end, policy-aware protocols are centralized. network infrastructure that provides unmatched Aside from not being able to provide fast, scalability. seamless failover, the infrastructure providing Open APIs are used to provision service features your residential services is under pressure. Simplies the network. No need to add additional and to program service forwarding tables. More bandwidth is needed for more protocols like LDP or RSVP. subscriber devices and traffic flows. You have to scale but it’s complex and expensive to Software De ned Networking Geo-Redundancy both add capacity and manage everything.

Multiple services can be delivered at the edge to Seamless failover across geographies. xed CPE and mobile devices. Subscribers are moved seamlessly―thanks to the A SDN controller and orchestrator provide central- stateful redundancy feature―to an available BNG at ized service provisioning and management. another location.

Business specific An EVPN deployed for Layer 2 or Layer 3 business VPN services uses a centralized BGP control plane. Room for improvement: A SDN controller and orchestrator provide centralized service provisioning and management. They also Business VPN provider serve as a centralized service control plan and inter-domain segment routing facilitator. edge Residential specific Your operational costs are outpacing your For residential services, the ASR 9000 with cloud-scale features is a next-generation BNG. With its business VPN revenues. Service delivery massive data plane and control plane scale and support for geo-redundancy, BNG provides you with infrastructure complexity is slowing down the most reliable and cost effective platform to host millions of subscribers. your ability to deploy and manage new The ASR 9000 router keeps minimal software features locally to build the optimized and self-protected business services. Using MPLS VPNs with IP/MPLS transport. The controller uses open APIs to provision the service features and programs the label technologies such as Label Distribution service forwarding tables. For IP/MPLS transport, the network nodes run a distributed Interior Gateway Protocol (LDP), pseudowire tunnels and Protocol (IGP) such as Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (ISIS) or Open Shortest Path First many other tools increase the potential (OSPF) with required extensions for MPLS segment routing locally. for failure and add additional traffic. All of these technologies and the complexity they Both business and residential introduce slows down service agility and With the ASR9000’s reliability, high availability, open API’s and streaming telemetry, you can offer failover. Configuring devices individually your customers guaranteed SLAs that are monitored and managed over your programmable makes it much harder to scale your network network infrastructure. to support the increases in traffic, devices, and apps that are coming with digital SDN architecture business initiatives. With an SDN architecture, multiple services can be delivered at the edge to fixed CPE and mobile devices. Segment routing allows for simplification of the network―no need to add additional protocols Ethernet and network programmability like LDP or RSVP―and simpler administration. promise new and better ways of providing business services. Any new and improved Next steps - Day 2 solution must be able to co-exist with existing When you’re ready, products like the Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) can provide real-time network infrastructure since forklift upgrades insight into the best paths for traffic. In the future, you might also consider virtual application hosting on are too expensive and disruptive. the ASR 9000. With 64-bit IOS XR, it’s easy to deploy third-party operational apps and services ― for example, iperf for network performance measurement or Puppet/Chef tools for management.

Mobile backhaul services Overview For mobile backhaul, third-generation line cards are invaluable as they can handle the tremendous scale of traffic being generated by mobile devices and future-proof your network for the 5G evolution. SDN controllers configure the backhaul network using automation and orchestration to greatly simplify provisioning and management.

Simplify and optimize Using segment routing as the transport protocol for mobile backhaul further simplifies and optimizes Room for improvement: traffic engineering. The use of streaming telemetry combined with data analytics solutions provides, Mobile backhaul even more, information about traffic, usage, devices and subscribers. This information is useful in Mobile data and traffic volumes are growing, optimizing traffic in real-time, troubleshooting and providing granular information about subscribers that and they’ll grow even more with 5G. Currently, can be useful for the development of new services and pricing. disparate legacy and newer network Figure 4. ASR 9000: Mobile backhaul services management tools from different vendors handle various network segments within the mobile Internet. These point products are Streaming Telemetry Bandwidth and Density non-collaborative, limited in their scale of operations and often unable to consistently hreero e cr roe u o Streaming telemetry combined with data analytics support Quality of Service (QoS) levels or o Ports can be configured flexibly ouo roe oro ueu demanded by customers. o uer e cr - Optimizing traffic and real-time troubleshooting - Monetizing the network by developing new Mobile backhaul capacity and efficiency Each port can be configured as separate 10 GE erce rc e o rur must increase so mobile broadband, data or or cooe o e ucrer access, and video services can effectively support consumer usage trends and keep Segment Routing 4G/5G Scalable Architecture mobile infrastructure costs in check. As with other use cases, the complexity of the ee rou he ror rooco or he couce eor rchecure cr pre-aggregation and aggregation layers mobile backhaul further simplifies and optimizes coe h o oe eor rchec of the service provider network and their traffic engineering. tures and is 5G ready. lack of automation and programmability are impediments to efficiency, scale, and cost-effectiveness. Cisco envisions the future unification of Ethernet backhaul and fronthaul using the same cloud-scale architecture and features. Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Services Overview For Data Center Interconnect (DCI), the ASR 9000 provides more control, higher speeds and density and greater routing efficiency. For enterprises and public sector users that might not have their data centers and want to connect their offices across geographies, the ASR 9000 serves as a WAN edge device.

OTT benefits For Over The Top (OTT) providers that require a multi-service edge device to connect to peers and to provide DCI, the ASR9000 and third generation line card are an ideal fit. They supports the scale and features required to serve as a peering router, LSR, LER or DCI device.

An EVPN control plane In all of these roles, EVPN provides the next-generation L2 VPN service infrastructure. It enables the Room for improvement: ASR 9000 running multiprotocol BGP to advertise and learn MAC addresses for access topology and Data Center Interconnect VPN endpoint discovery. This eliminates the need for signaling of separate point-to-point pseudowire Scale is also an issue with Data Center VC labels for each remote PE, enabling tremendous scale. EVPN also brings seamless host mobility Interconnect (DCI) services. The need for near-instantaneous failover. If a VM in one data center goes down, another VM in a different data for signaling for separate point-to-point center is automatically created, so service isn’t lost. pseudowire Virtual Circuit (VC) labels in each Figure 5. ASR 9000: Data Center Interconnect remote provider edge device limits scale. Slow failover is also a problem with most DCI solutions. If a VM goes down in one data Ethernet VPN 100 GE/10 GE Density MACSec center, it often doesn’t failover to another VM instantaneously, so service is temporarily lost. he ee o ee e reuree he r or uhec or eer ercoec eroe encrypting packets between two MACSec devices. Another limitation with DCI solutions used by Tier 2 and Tier 3 providers today is the Benefits include flow-based active/active load It enables service provider links from different data inability to do line rate Layer 2 encryption. In balancing to and from multi-homed Ethernet centers going to public areas to be encrypted faster the past, supporting this functionality meant segments and greater flexibility and control over so they can handle massive scale without over- the MAC learning process. whelming CPUs. adding a prohibitively expensive optical line or other proprietary third-party solution. As a Segment Routing Multiservice Edge result, markets such as government agencies that have extensive security requirements Segment routing lets you take advantage of enhanced The ASR 9000 provides an array of edge services: have been out of reach for DCI providers. packet forwarding via Cisco NSO. NFV, automation er er and other programmable features simplify complex Broadband Network Gateway (BNG), Internet service deployment and management. Protocol Television (IPTV), and Content-Delivery eor

Cisco controllers Cisco NSO controller serves as a SDN controller for segment routing and lets you take advantage of enhanced and optimized packet forwarding. Cisco’s Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) and Cisco Virtual Topology Systems (VTS) provide NFV, automation and programmable features to simplify complex service deployment and management. The Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) can also be used for DCI environments to bring real-time insight into establishing the best paths for traffic.

MACSec encryption Additionally, cloud-scale gives DCI providers the ability to deliver Layer 2 line rate encryption using Room for improvement: the 100GE and 10GE MACSec feature in the new third-generation line cards. Now you can provide Internet peering/transit encryption and authentication in hardware, saving CPU resources and providing higher throughput. This Capacity and scale also figure prominently capability is significant because provider links from different data centers going to public areas must be as requirements in Internet transit/peering encrypted faster to handle massive scale without overwhelming CPUs. services. To ensure that bandwidth With the MacSec feature, you can now offer protected, fully encrypted services to government requirements are supported without excess agencies and other organizations that are mandated to provide line rate encryption. It’s a new source of capacity, peering routers need to provide revenue based on service capabilities with a clear ROI. 100GE ports and 10GE or 40GE interfaces too. Hierarchical QoS must be available to Internet peering/transit services apply service classes and policies to all Overview traffic, and that is difficult to ensure as traffic For Internet peering/transit, the ASR 9000 with IOS XR cloud-scale features serves as a peering router continues to grow exponentially. in the Internet Exchange Point (IXP). It provides enhanced egress peering that includes support for a Determining the best path for traffic with rich and highly scalable Hierarchical QoS (HQoS) stack that lets you apply service classes and policies a plethora of endpoints and networks with to peering/transit traffic. Enhancements to the BGP stack help make peering even more efficient. thousands of nodes is complex. Application And the new third-generation line cards provide a 100GE backbone that is needed for growing networking adds data tables sometimes traffic volumes. containing millions of entries to traffic Security Access Control Lists (ACLs) workflows. Multiple protocols must be Another big advantage of cloud-scale here is third-generation line card support for scaled security maintained, and many protocol interactions Access Control Lists (ACLs). With a large volume of unknown traffic coming into peering routers, a require troubleshooting. What’s needed large scale of ACLs is needed to filter out malicious traffic and ensure that the traffic is coming from is greater network programmability and trusted sources. Currently, the third-generation line cards support up to 98,000 IPv4 ACLs and 16,000 efficiency in how traffic is directed. What if IPv6 ACLs. It also supports chaining ACLs to help manage the provisioning of large-scale ACLs on edge routers could steer packets onto the the router. most optimal network paths and intelligently respond to application requirements and Routing table scale network conditions without requiring any state The line cards also support routing table scale, with each card able to handle 10 million IPv4 routes, creation and maintenance? triple what the old cards can support. This is a key feature with peering/transit as it involves multiple providers with separate routing tables that must be maintained by the peering routers. Another area where there’s room for improvement in Internet transit/peering is the capacity of routing tables. IPv4 tables are 750,000 entries alone. Peering multiple providers requires that multiples of those tables are maintained in each peering router. Older line cards can handle 4 million routes. That isn’t enough going forward. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Brochure Cisco public

Streaming telemetry For all of these use cases, cloud-scale streaming telemetry will provide a rich source of operational data in the future. Using BGP to obtain information about traffic paths, you’ll be able to add data from your streaming telemetry solution to see what traffic patterns look like, where problems are occurring and many other operational data points. Using analytical solutions, you’ll be able to run a true self- healing network where problems can be anticipated before they happen and where outages are a thing of the past.

Figure 6. ASR 9000: Internet peering/transit services

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Cisco ASR 9000 overview Awarded “Best Carrier Ethernet Aggregation Product” by the Carrier Ethernet World Congress, the Cisco® ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers is one of Cisco’s best-selling products. It has consistently raised the bar for edge and core routing, with exceptional scalability, carrier-class reliability, environmentally conscious design, incredible flexibility, and an attractive price-to-performance benchmark.

Figure 7. ASR 9000 product portfolio

Product portfolio The product portfolio ranges from the Cisco ASR 9001 (2 Rack Units [2RU]) to the Cisco ASR 9922 (44RU), with each system designed to provide true carrier-class reliability using the Cisco IOS® XR operating system. Comprehensive system redundancy and a full complement of network resiliency schemes are included. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series also offers service, and application-level intelligence focused on optimized video delivery and mobile aggregation. The ASR 9000 Series products are designed to simplify and enhance the operational and deployment aspects of service-delivery networks.

Within the ASR 9000 Series, all common components including Route Switch Processors (RSPs), Route Processors (RPs), switching fabric, fans and power supplies are redundant. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series is a critical component in optimizing service-transport infrastructure because of its service flexibility, comprehensive feature set, wide interface capability, and transparent integration of Carrier Ethernet and WAN interfaces as the foundation for services delivery. The Series provides a powerful single solution for Multiservice Edge (MSE), Ethernet-optimized MSE (E-MSE), and Carrier Ethernet needs.

The Cisco ASR 9000 Series brings increased power and simplicity to the edge, and the ASR 9000v sets the industry benchmark as a virtualized compact carrier-class converged access and aggregation platform. Using the Cisco network Virtualization (nV) technology, the Cisco ASR 9000 Series offers exceptional pay-as-you-grow scale, carrier-class reliability and simplified service provisioning.

The high-density service edge and core platforms are scalable, ultra-high density service routers, ideal for large, high-growth environments. They are upgradable to 10 GE and 100 GE ports without the need for a complete chassis replacement.

Coming enhancements will provide investment protection because they provide backward compatibility with third-generation line cards, fabric and Route Processors and Route Switch Processors (RPs/RSPs).

Smart Software Licensing for the Cisco ASR 9000 With Cisco Smart Software Licensing, you only pay for the software you need when you need it. No software installation is needed or necessary. The ASR 9000 initiates an HTTP/HTTPS call-home session and requests the licenses it uses and is configured for the licenses associated with your account.

You can un-configure the feature that is used in the current chassis and reconfigure the feature on a new chassis that needs to use the same license. A re-provisioning happens dynamically when the new device initiates an HTTP/HTTPS request via the call-home process.

License pool(s) created already in your account can be used with any ASR 9000 device in your company. Licenses are stored securely on Cisco backend servers, accessible 24x7x365. License count is per customer account, or pool and many devices can be part of the same pool.

Licenses can be moved between product instances without any software installation. You can also transfer licenses from one pool to the other easily with a Web interface.

Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router The Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router is a virtual version of the ASR 9000 router. Deployed on virtualized general x86 compute platforms, it complements existing physical Cisco routers that rely on Cisco IOS XR Software, such as Cisco Network Convergence System routers, Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers, and Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS) platforms.

You can utilize the Cisco IOS XRv 9000 Router as an end-to-end solution with a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructure, virtual network functions, and service orchestration and management. It can be deployed for control plane functions as a virtual route reflector. It can also be deployed as a high-performance data plane. It is based on an X86-optimized code base that uses Cisco nPower Network Processor Units (NPUs) and the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK).

Third-generation line cards The Cisco ASR 9000 Series supports industry-leading, ultra high-density 100 Gigabit Ethernet third- generation line cards with up to 12 ports of 100GE and Cisco IOS XR Software. These high-capacity line cards are designed to remove bandwidth bottlenecks in the network that are caused by the large increase in Video-on-Demand (VoD), IoT, 5G, IPTV, point-to-point video, Internet video, and cloud services traffic.

Feature highlights include high density and scalability; flexible interface support; the benefits of Cisco CPAK™ technology that is poised to revolutionize optical transport through Complementary Metal- Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) photonics; inline security; and environmentally and resource-friendly power saving design.

Third-generation line card models include:

A9K-8X100GE-SE 8-port 100GE LAN/WAN/OTN Service Edge Optimized, LC A9K-8x100GE-TR 8-port 100GE LAN/WAN/OTN Packet Transport Optimized, LC A99-8x100GE-SE 8-port 100GE LAN/WAN/OTN Service Edge Optimized, LC (7-fabric support) A99-8x100GE-TR 8-port 100GE LAN/WAN/OTN Packet Transport Optimized, LC (7-Fabric support) A9K-4x100GE-SE 4-port 100GE LAN/WAN/OTN Service Edge Optimized, LC A9K-4x100GE-TR 4-port 100GE LAN/WAN/OTN Packet Transport Optimized, LC A9K-4x100GE 4-port 100GE LAN Packet Transport Optimized, LC A9K-MOD400-SE 400GE Line Card, Service Edge Optimized, LC A9K-MOD400-TR 400GE Line Card, Packet Transport Optimized, LC A9K-MOD200-SE 200GE Line Card, Service Edge Optimized, LC A9K-MOD200-TR 200GE Line Card, Packet Transport Optimized, LC A9K-400G-DWDM-TR 400GE IPoDWDM Packet Transport Optimized, LC A9K-MPA-20x10GE 20-port 10GE Modular Port Adapter A9K-MPA-1x100GE 1-port 100GE Modular Port Adapter A9K-MPA-2x100GE 2-port 100GE Modular Port Adapter A99-12x100GE 12-port 100GE LC A9K-48X10GE-1G-SE ASR9000 48-port dual rate 10G/1G service edge optimized LC A9K-48X10GE-1G-TR ASR9000 48-port dual rate 10G/1G packet transport optimized LC A9K-24X10GE-1G-SE ASR9000 24-port dual rate 10G/1G service edge optimized LC A9K-24X10GE-1G-TR ASR9000 48-port dual rate 10G/1G packet transport optimized LC

The 8x100GE and 4x100GE third-generation line cards support the AnyPort technology thanks to CPAK optics. They support dense 100GE/40GE/10GE interfaces that you can mix and match on the same line card. IP and optical 100G interfaces can be integrated on the same ASR 9000 400G IPoDWDM TR line card.

IOS XR 64-bit is only supported on third-generation line cards. It brings the features and control plane scale that enables cloud-scale networking.

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Summary Attention Cisco ASR 9000 The benefits of Cisco cloud-scale networking are truly transformative. Reducing TCO, optimizing your customers! operations and getting services to market faster will have a clear impact on your bottom line. The ability With the Cisco ASR 9000 deployed in your to launch new types of services and to substantially improve the customer experience will improve your network, you already know about the feature revenue flow. Security throughout all layers of your service delivery architecture helps you mitigate risk. richness and versatility of this best-selling With SDN solutions, you gain tremendous agility and control, enabling applications to determine what Cisco product. So why make changes to resources they require rather than being limited by infrastructure constraints. Your network becomes a what’s working so well? Why risk disrupting platform ready to launch all of the hottest new services. your network and incurring additional costs? You’ve seen how Cisco cloud-scale features can transform business and residential services to lower Because with Cisco third-generation line operational costs at the network edge. With mobile backhaul, you learned how third-generation line cards, a whole new world of lucrative cloud- cards can handle the tremendous scale of mobile traffic and how segment routing can simplify and scale networking capabilities can be yours. optimize traffic engineering to help you manage next generation 5G and IoT services. With DCI, the And upgrading isn’t disruptive at all. Here are ASR 9000 delivers more control, higher speeds and density and much greater routing efficiency. And a few more reasons why you should take a for Internet peering/transit, cloud-scale features in IOS XR make peering hyper-efficient, and the new serious look at Cisco third-generation line line cards bring a 100GE backbone to future-proof your operations. cards today: Cost-effective and flexible to deploy • They can provide investment protection Migration is a complex exercise that demands tremendous attention to detail, a high level of technical and greater longevity for your ASR 9000s expertise, and time-consuming effort. It also throws up numerous challenges, ranging from availability of adequate information, managing time and cost to maintaining SLAs post migration. Cisco Advanced • No need to swap chassis to switch out the Services helps customers transform their cloud-scale Networking initiatives from idea to reality through new line cards a proven risk mitigating methodology. And with Cisco’s Cisco Smart Software Licensing, you only pay • Upgrade your platforms as needed, no for the software you need when you need it. need to do all at once

Financing your upgrade through Cisco Next steps Capital is another tremendous benefit. Cisco It’s all waiting for you with Cisco cloud-scale networking, available on the tried and true ASR 9000 Capital can help you acquire the technology running IOS XR with our newest third-generation line cards. you need to achieve your objectives and Are you ready for 5G, the IoT, M2M, virtual managed services and the other major opportunities and stay competitive. We can help you reduce challenges coming from consumer and business digitization? Are you a current ASR 9000 customer or CapEx. Accelerate your growth. Optimize new to this product line? your investment dollars and ROI. Cisco Capital financing gives you flexibility in Contact us today. Find out how cloud-scale networking from Cisco can make a huge difference today acquiring hardware, software, services, and and tomorrow. complementary third-party equipment. And there’s just one predictable payment. Cisco Capital is available in more than 100 countries.

Learn more Ready to take the next step in your cloud-scale networking transformation? Contact your Cisco account representative or visit:

Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/ routers/asr-9000-series-aggregation-services-routers/index.html

Cisco ASR 9000 Series Line Cards: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/routers/asr-9000- series-aggregation-services-routers/116726-qanda-product-00.html

Cisco IOS XRv9000 Router: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/asr-9000- series-aggregation-services-routers/datasheet-c78-734034.html

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